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Member Butler introduced the following resolution and moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 2024-20
A RESOLUTION DIRECTING THE ADOPTION OF TRAFFIC STOP POLICY FOR
THE BROOKLYN CENTER POLICE DEPARTMENT
WHEREAS, the Brooklyn Center City Council adopted Resolution No. 2021-73
establishing the Daunte Wright and Kobe Dimock-Heisler Community Safety and Violence
Prevention Act (“Act”) to direct the development and implementation of various reforms to
improve the delivery of public safety services in the community; and
WHEREAS, the Act provides for the establishment of an Implementation Committee
(“Committee”) to assist in the development of public safety measures, including authority to
propose amendments, ordinances, resolutions, policies, guidelines or other recommendations for
the review, adoption or implementation by the City Council or City staff, as appropriate, that
would fully implement the will and intent of City Council as expressed in the Act; and
WHEREAS, the Committee was established in accordance with the Act, and following
the completion of significant community engagement and lengthy and informative study of
public safety measures, ordinances and policies, the Committee recommended the adoption of an
ordinance regulating the initiation of traffic stops by the Brooklyn Center Police Department;
and
WHEREAS, upon the request of the City Council, City Staff conducted meetings with
the community to gather input from community members with regard to the Committee’s
recommendation; and
WHEREAS, City Staff reviewed the input received from the community, and upon the
request of the City Council, City Staff conducted its own review of the Committee’s
recommendation; and
WHEREAS, City Staff recommended that (1) traffic stops be controlled and regulated by
policy rather than an ordinance, (2) a traffic stop policy be adopted as a stand-alone policy, rather
than being part of other policies and (3) the initiation of traffic stops should be allowed for
moderate and high-risk equipment violations in the interests of protecting public safety; and
WHEREAS, City Staff prepared a traffic stop policy, attached hereto as Exhibit A, to be
incorporated into the Policy Manual for the Brooklyn Center Police Department; and
WHEREAS, the City Council finds and determines as follows:
1. Based upon the findings and studies conducted by the Committee and City Staff,
the recommended regulation and control of the initiation of traffic stops is in
accordance with the goals of the Act, including the creation of a safer, healthier,
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more just and more thriving community, and the creation of diverse responses to
non-moving traffic offenses and low-level violations;
2. The regulation and control of Brooklyn Center Police Department traffic stops
should be enacted through the adoption of policies rather than by City ordinance;
3. Given its distinctive subject matter, the traffic stop policy should be stand-alone
policy and should be incorporated into the Policy Manual for the Brooklyn Center
Police Department;
4. In the interests of public safety and the safety of the traveling public, moderate
and high-risk equipment violations, as presented to the City Council, are
sufficient to warrant the initiation of a traffic stop by officers with the Brooklyn
Center Police Department;
5. In order to allow time for training and community education and engagement, the
effective date of the traffic stop policy should be May 1, 2024; and
6. It is in the best interests of the City that the traffic stop policy be adopted and
incorporated into the Policy Manual for the Brooklyn Center Police Department.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the City Council of the City of Brooklyn
Center as follows:
1. The City Manager and City Staff are authorized and directed to adopt the traffic
stop policy attached hereto as Exhibit A and to take any and all necessary actions
to incorporate the policy into the Policy Manual for the Brooklyn Center Police
Department.
2. The City Manager and City Staff shall provide officers with the Brooklyn Center
Police Department a copy of the traffic stop policy, and officers shall certify by
signing the prescribed form that the officer has been advised of the policy, is aware
of and understands its content, and agrees to abide by its provisions during the
officer’s term with the Brooklyn Center Police Department.
3. The effective date of the traffic stop policy shall be May 1, 2024.
4. The traffic stop policy shall not be amended or revoked without the consent of the
City Council.
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January 22, 2024
Date Mayor
ATTEST:
City Clerk
The motion for the adoption of the foregoing resolution was duly seconded by member
Graves
and upon vote being taken thereon, the following voted in favor thereof:
Butler, Graves
and the following voted against the same:
Jerzak, Kragness, Lawrence-Anderson
whereupon said resolution failed.
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EXHIBIT A
Traffic Stop Policy
[attached hereto]